TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago

Luckily the truth is pretty far in the middle.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah cool Malcolm, it's been 30 years, you don't need to give this speech every time uses it as shorthand for "in the context of our continued survival on it".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, sure, but this assumes that the killing is completely indiscriminate.

It is, but it's important that you're clear on that

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Right, but what can they do, short of banning small bottles of water?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Punishment? No. To get exactly what they actively chose to make happen? Of course.

Interesting that you'd frame "consequences if their actions" as "punishment". Because punishment is usually a consequence of your actions, while not all consequences are punishment.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't need to offer anything. I'm from a country with a parliament, ranked choice voting, proportional representation. But if you still don't get that not Trump should absolutely be better than "whatever, I guess", you deserve what's coming.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (8 children)

OK but the first guy is still going to kill you

I'm really hoping that this wasn't the reasoning people had for throwing the planet under the bus

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 22 points 2 days ago

I need you to understand that these diaper-wearing fucks would just buy both

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I love my Steam Deck. It's literally beside my hotel bed right now, while the Switch is at home with two kids under 10. But:

  • the docking and detaching experience is frustrating as hell
  • it is significantly heavier and yet feels more fragile.
  • it has profiles but not comparably to the Switch in terms of use and UX
  • and the controller experience is very hit and miss.
    • It spent 2 months just literally randomly shutting off bluetooth - you had to go into desktop mode and re-enable with a Linux command until they patched it - but that's not even it - whenever it did that, it also disabled the sticks!.
    • I have multiple entries in the controllers screen - none of which can be renamed or show indicators as to which controller they are - where every now and again the Deck decides sorry, I don't recognise that controller anymore. Please come walk across the living room and awkwardly stand in front of the telly pressing buttons on the Steam Deck's face to re-pair things.
    • Oh and controller layout schemes are a cool and powerful feature but way too complicated for me to explain to an 8 year old.

If "I just want to pick up a controller after work and forget what Philip in Marketing said he thought the project was going to look like", or "I want to buy games once and share them with my kids" or even "I'll throw this in my bag to kill 20 minutes at the waiting room" are factors, the Steam Deck is very much not superior in every way.

Again. Love my Deck. Almost exclusively buy "Verified" games now. Halfway through a Nintendo game that somehow is easier for me, a software dev to find ajd emulate on Deck than on a Nintendo console. But the Switch has been a remarkable console to have in my living room. The first console I bought (actually now that I think of it, that my wife bought for me) since Wii and before that since PlayStation 2. I'm not really a console player. I have 1000+ games on Steam. Still Switch excels at many things and the sales figures should make that obvious.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

No that's OK, pictures speak louder than words. Doesn't matter that it's RFA, images like the feature photo of the article deserve to be seen around the world. The utter devastation of... well... maybe a strong wind?

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